With Brian away, Elan brought in famed writer for The Athletic, Dom Luszczyszyn, to explain the Game Score stat he invented (and how he uses it to project team performance), his ongoing season preview series and standings projections running now at The Athletic, and the methods, quirks, and assorted nitty gritty of his outstanding fantasy projection spreadsheet for 2017-18.

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Whose NHL point totals are the hardest to pin down for the 2017-18 season? Elan and Brian leafed through a whack of different point total projections to pinpoint this year's most contentious players, and are bringing them into the analytical spotlight to help settle the debate on this episode of the Keeping Karlsson Hockey Podcast.

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As has become a Keeping Karlsson tradition, Elan and Brian spend this week's episode picking apart the Yahoo rankings to find the players that you should leave untouched as they come upon your radar, and the gems hidden amongst the masses that you should reach to draft (far) earlier than their pre-draft ranking calls for.

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With a dizzying mix of numbers and context, Elan and Brian go sifting for clues on which goalies will improve, decline, and surprise in the 2017-18 NHL season.

As on every Smörgoåliesbord, the guys touch on Every. Single. Goalie with potential to see a minute of ice this year, and conveniently tier them for your fantasy hockey draft purposes. They explain why you should tier for your draft, how they design their tiers, and all the crazy cool stats and pieces of information that go into their goalie projecting sausage.

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